From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Simon Wright Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: a question of form Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:23:06 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <8f4fc25e-2039-429c-a5d5-97c450b87078@googlegroups.com> <64f1912b-1a7f-4478-bb47-0e5ed054c1d1@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="523de1ab7c05e00b011ba57e8953fa66"; logging-data="9403"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1//Lx2djVoPXgACxzmkHTzG6erZqIDcCKQ=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LOL8vZcNpjOxFF2WL9bPp2X7x5Q= sha1:2iv2oJ1JVQL5bLPzqbuotQxtGeA= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:21948 Date: 2014-08-28T14:23:06+01:00 List-Id: "G.B." writes: > On 27.08.14 09:17, AdaMagica wrote: >> On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 7:00:47 AM UTC+2, Randy Brukardt wrote: >>> I've always used title capitalization for identifiers. That is, >>> capitalize them like a title (which is almost, but not quite the >>> same as Initial_Caps). Thus, Good_and_Bad rather than >>> Good_And_Bad. This gets me into trouble with the RM, because that >>> requires capitalizing words that one *never* capitalizes in English. >> >> I also like this style, and now I have a name for it. > > What will be the most wanted (and least controversial) > words for title case exception in English and other natural > languages? > > (I'm collecting them for a patch of Ada mode for Emacs, > which makes Good_and_Bad appear automatically.) The concept is quite close to "stop words" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words As it says in the article, not to be confused with safe words :-)